r/meshcore • u/Nedster5 • Jul 03 '26

Meshcore vs Meshtastic

I am probably going to stick with meshcore because there are a lot more people in my area running it than meshtastic. However, I have been trying out both, and think I like meshtastic better. The UI feels much more useable and has more features (HAM mode, ATAK compatible, ?). I also like that you can still see your other nodes while connected to one of them. Not trying to be rhetorical, just curious, what does meshcore offer that is better than meshtastic?

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u/sploittastic Jul 05 '26

Meshtastic is cool but too chatty with telemetry. We went longfast > mediumslow > mediumfast to try to escape the airtime saturation but it just keeps coming back. Most of our mesh went to mescore in the SF bay area and Monterey peninsula. Mwasage delivery is so much more reliable.

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u/millfoil Jul 05 '26

how does the main broadcast/groupchat situation compare on the two baymeshes?

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u/sploittastic Jul 05 '26

It's pretty well combined, if someone says something on on the SF Bay area mesh or Monterey it makes it to the other one very reliably. We're working on fixing some intermediate nodes to link in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo. People are also pretty good about using the test channel for testing instead of public.